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Thu, 01/21/2010 - 9:59am

Bill Loguidice

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Mattel Aquarius Software

Well, this is the Aquarius software I have on cartridge (should be a fairly complete list) in addition to the Radofin cassette:

Astrosmash
Biorhythms
Logo
Nightstalker
Snafu
Treasure of Tarmin (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Treasure of Tarmin Cartridge)
Tron Deadly Discs
Utopia

As you can see, only Biorhythms and Logo are original to the Aquarius, i.e., not also found on the Intellivison. According to this site, there were several other titles released, though a lot of them I've never seen in the US and were definitely only released overseas: http://www.vdsteenoven.com/aquarius/battle.html

Among the Aquarius's myriad of technical issues was its lack of anything more than character graphics. The running man images and other graphics were added to the feature set by Mattel engineers to help make the Aquarius not completely pathetic. Even with that, it's still difficult to do much visually on the thing, and that's pretty shocking for a computer system of that vintage.

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